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Born 1803, Scott county
From History of Boone County, Missouri (1882)
JEFFERSON GARTH.
Jefferson Garth was born in Scott county, Kentucky, May 22, 1803. He is the son of John and Sally (GriflSth) Garth. He came to Boone county, Missouri, in the fall of 1836. Nine years previous to emigrating to Missouri, he married Mary Ann, daughter of Geti. Robert S. Russell. By this marriage they have had eight children, seven sons and one daughter, of whom two sons, Robert and Thomas Allen, are dead. Walter W. Garth, clerk of the circuit court, is the youngest of the family. William is a farmer in Clay county. Samuel has 41 cattle ranche in the Indian Nation, where he is now living. Henry H.
HISTORY or BOONE COUNTY. 869 living in Rocheport, where he has a grocery store. James M. is lining on a farm four miles north of Rocheport. Lizzie, the only dmaghter, is the wife of Col. C. T. Worley. Mrs. Worley is living with her parents. Mr. Garth has followed farming all his life. He has a fine farm of 600 acres, lying partially within the suburbs of Columbia. It is well watered and timbered. Mrs. Garth is the only child of the Kussell family now living. She is seventy-seven years old. Mr. Gailh's Cither died in 1836, and his mother a few years later. John Gaith was one of the largest farmers and slaveholders in Scott county.
As printed in History of Boone County, Missouri (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.
Their biographies name Jefferson Garth: Samuel B. Spence (b. 1819)
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